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18 new field codes were created at Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari University of Applied Sciences



Behrouz Shayegh Boroujeni, in a meeting with reporters on Tuesday, added: “Kindergarten teacher training, beekeeping and child show training in professional associate degree and news photography and psychological operations in professional bachelor’s degree are among the new fields of study in the centers.” Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari applied sciences were created.

He stated that this university seeks to make changes in the educational field of the province, clarified: Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari is one of the leading provinces in the field of creating new fields and has been able to review and compile educational topics in 2 fields of textile and edible oil. Be raised.

Shayeq reminded: Currently, 2,100 students are studying in eight active applied science centers in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari. The fields of services, industry, culture and art are accepted by accepting 1,300, 400 and 350 students, respectively. They have dedicated this university to themselves.

He also announced the number of students studying in the field code of agriculture in the field of 110 and said: 450 teachers, 31 of whom are expert teachers, are responsible for providing scientific and skills training to students of applied science centers in the province who have experience. And skill is one of the most important characteristics of active instructors in these centers.

Entrepreneurship-oriented innovation centers are increasing in the province’s universities of applied sciences

Regarding the research activities carried out in the province’s comprehensive university of applied sciences, he added: “Despite focusing on applied activities, this university has tried to play a role in the research sector, especially entrepreneurship. Associated with the University of Applied Sciences.

Shayek considered the clothing design center and tourism application center as active innovation centers in the province and said: “We will try to get more innovation units in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari licensed to operate with the support of university centers.”

The President of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Comprehensive University of Applied Sciences also stated that setting up four startups and holding more than 20 scientific webinars in the Comprehensive University of Applied Sciences of the province are among the other research activities of this educational center: Small and medium and wood industry are among the axes of organized startups, which was also welcomed.

He pointed to the conditions caused by the outbreak of coronavirus and the imposition of restrictions on the presence of students in university centers and said: in the last three semesters that universities pursued their activities in absentia under the influence of these conditions, the province’s comprehensive university of applied sciences Farhangi has run programs such as sports competitions, Quranic competitions, and student debates in cyberspace.

The face-to-face activities of the Comprehensive University of Applied Sciences will be resumed if students are vaccinated

In response to reporters’ questions about the vaccination of teachers and students and how to continue educational and workshop activities in the next academic year, Shaykh said: “All 450 provincial teachers as well as university staff have been introduced to health centers to receive the vaccine.”

He added: “If all students are vaccinated by the end of February this year, it is hoped that the educational activities of universities will return to normal before the coronation, but so far no specific program has been presented in this regard. The fact that the main trainings in these centers are workshop and technical, will continue in absentia or in combination in the new academic year.

The development of a skills training plan in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari needs to be reconsidered

The president of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari University of Applied Sciences, in response to another question about the steps of preparing a plan for the training of skills training in the province, said: The study and preparation stages of this plan began last year in the University of Applied Sciences, but due to other universities Competitive and the creation of new string codes, this plan did not come close to the fact that it needs to be reconsidered.

He added: “The efforts of other university centers to create disciplines whose main creator is the University of Applied Sciences, has made these centers unable to be successful in attracting students and suffer losses.”

Shayegh mentioned one of the identified needs of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari in the plan of organizing skill trainings in the field of welfare and added: And social work should be delegated to existing centers.

He reminded that in the development perspective of the province, some axes such as tourism and agriculture have been considered: although these axes have been defined and specified in the process of creating the code of study fields of applied science centers, but as long as studying in universities is purposeful. Do not plan, people also prefer to choose fields beyond the defined needs to continue their education, which will have consequences in the employment debate.

The number of applied science centers in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari has decreased by 50%

He also referred to the plan to organize scientific and applied university centers and said: “A number of centers in the province, following the review of the legal structure, faced issues that needed to follow their conditions to determine the task due to the decrease in applicants and increase The costs of setting up and maintaining the university center were not followed up by the centers and were somehow closed.

The president of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari University of Applied Sciences reminded: out of 16 university centers that were active in the province in the past, four centers were closed due to the ban on their dependence on government agencies and institutions and the rest due to lack of applicants and now eight active centers In Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, they continue to accept students.

Saying that no center has been closed according to provincial policies, Shayek said that the main reasons for the 50% decrease in the number of applied science centers were due to the lack of applicants and the non-recruitment of students.

Regarding the possibility of examining the working conditions of the graduates of applied science centers and how to attract them to the labor market, he said: “Although no detailed studies have been conducted in this field so far and the entrepreneurial share of these centers is unknown, it can be said that The centers are made up of employed people who have been attracted to applied science universities in order to improve their science and skills.

Shaykh considered it necessary to establish a database of graduates in order to evaluate the results of skills training at the University of Applied Sciences.

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